Improvement in apparatus for drawing water from the ocean



D.C.SPO0NER. Appa ratusfor Drawing Water'from the Ocean.

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DAVID C. SPOONER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR DRAWING WATER FROM THE OCEAN.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 154,158, dated August 18, 1874; application filed August 19, 1873. I

CASE B.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DAVID C. SPOONER, of the city of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a mode of drawing Water from the ocean below low-water mark and at any height of thetides, of which the following is a specification:

Myinvention relates to a gutta-percha or other flexible pipe having a strainer at its receiving end, and provided with a buoy and anchors, whereby the strainer is kept submerged at any height of the tides. There is a series of pipes extended from the other end of the pipe to a suction-pump, which is located at any convenient point for the discharge of the water into a reservoir.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the apparatus. Fig. 2 is a side view of the pipe A.

Like letters of reference in both figures indicate the same parts.

In Fig. 1, A is a gutta-percha pipe, connected at one end to the neck a of the strainer E. The other end is connected with the metallic pipe A, a suitable number of which are extended to a suction-pump, (not seen in the drawings,) which is situated at any convenient point for discharging the water into a reservoir, for bathing, '&c. The strainer E has a flange, b, which is secured, by means of screws, to the flange b of the hollow float or buoy F.

The buoy is provided with chains G G G, that are connected at their lower ends to the anchors B B B, which lie on the bed of the ocean and hold the buoy in its altitudinal position, the chains admitting of its yielding to the force of the Waves and swaying in any direction, and to the flow and ebb of the tide. They are of sufticient length to admit of the buoy rising with the tide to high-water mark, as represented in Fig. 1. The pipe A has a fixed position, so as not to strain upon the gutta-percha pipe A. This pipe is of such length as to admit of the rising of its end 1 with the tide without any strain upon it, and hence the operation of the apparatus is complete at all times during high and low water and the rising and falling of the tides.

I claim as my invention-- The combination of the flexible pipe A, strainer E, buoy F, chains G G G, and pipes A with the anchors B B B, for drawing water from the ocean below low-water mark and at difierent heights of the tide, the strainer being caused to rise and fall with the tide,

substantially as described.

DAVID C. SPOONER.

Witnesses:

. STEPHEN UsTIoK,

THOMAS. J. BEWLEY. 

